It’s like putting a convicted pedophile in charge of a nursery school. Or letting a drunk driver drive the bus. Or denying meeting with Russians when your son admits to meeting with Kremlin representatives. They’re just foolish and dangerous things. So, too, is what Donald Trump’s lawyers just proposed to Judge Aileen Cannon, so that obviously doesn’t mean she’ll reject it.
See, Donald Trump–who’s indicted on forty federal charges relating to mishandling classified documents, including charges that he flouted standard practice regarding classified material by showing it to other unauthorized people and leaving the documents unsecured–has asked the court to allow him to construct a SCIF–a secured compartmentalized information facility–on his open-to-the-public supper club at Mar-a-Lago, claiming to facilitate the defense preparation in his case.
“President Trump respectfully requests that the Proposed CIPA Protective Order be modified to approve re-establishment of a secure facility in which President Trump was permitted previously to discuss (and review2 ) classified information during his term as President of the United States,” the request reads. Because, sure, let a man who has admitted to possessing classified documents without authorization and has even bragged about it in recorded discussions, should be trusted this time.